Thursday, August 20, 2009

It’s as if the Saudade Series was written for songs like this. Ponto de Situação is modeled to sound like a phone conversation, an email, or a letter sent to you from a friend or family member in Luanda. MCK is the friend, rapping about the current situation of his beloved city, and the “Hey Kapa” loop is the voice of Ikonoklasta. MCK talks about old friends and lovers from years past, about how the way of life he has always know is constantly changing, about how the school where he always played soccer is going to get torn down for a supermarket to rise in its place, about how the girls in his street are getting cuter by the day. But of course MCK can’t help but add a few inconvenient truths, like how the buildings keep getting dirtier and how things only get done when elections are coming around. It’s not a happy or a sad song, it is simply nostalgic.

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